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What’s the alternative? How do you solve the problem of not allowing children into online spaces where they shouldn’t be allowed in?

It's all relative. When I was 20, I'd consider myself old at 36. Now when I am 36, my definition of old has shifted and it's now somewhere past 50. I guess "old" for a person is ju…

Hire excellent programmers who spent their lifetime learning how to write good code and build systems, and then the code is easy. Hire some bad ones and watch them struggle and fai…

The scope and complexity of the change is crucial here. There is a sweet spot where spec-driven agent offers great value: the change is small and simple enough that you can describ…

Comes to germany, does not like it, makes a picture of a middle finger to Bundestag. This smells like ragebait low effort content I come to HN in order to avoid!

When I was younger I had a few different sources for finding music - a couple of friends who were really into music and I knew they were investing time and searching for it, so I a…

How do you make money by developing a web browser? You build this immensely complex piece of software and then have no choice but to distribute it for free. It seems like with the …

because of MCP and langchain?

i think we need to come to terms with the reality of coding challenges in the interview process. i know i hate them personally, and dread having to interview again because i'll nee…

The stories of geniuses suffering from depression and other mental illnesses sure make remarkably interesting reads. It’s a pity he didn’t get psychiatric help, this could have bee…

I’m sorry if this is a stupid question, but I want to ask it because I see the same sentiment across HN and other forums and I’m legitimately confused. If we don’t hijack privacy i…

this resonates strongly with me because i just had to nuke an abstraction invented by my colleague, which solved a small DRY issue but introduced a big change difficulty issue. All…

i get the benefit of offloading the admin costs onto your consumers, but, as always, the devil is in the details. i've met both cases where a library should've been a service, and …

I'm at my best at writing (code, text, everything) when I'm working remotely. The option to sit down and focus in the apartment all to myself has done wonders to my code and abilit…

"too fucked" sounds a bit too extreme, but I agree. it's an interesting problem that we need to learn how to solve - what do you do with people whose jobs have been automated? capi…

this generalizes more broadly in fact and applies to not just parsing and validating data. very often you want to reject all problematic states so you can conveniently code the hap…

if you worked all day but the output of that work is nothing, you can talk about whether it was work or not all day, but that's not what matters.

> Use your complexity budget wisely Well said

I don't think the industry was supposed to create this magic environment where everybody gets to be a hacker and have good, artistic fun programming. Unfortunately it seems like in…

I like your take and it resonates a lot with me. But companies splitting up to remove the need of middle management - has that ever happened to anyone? A more realistic advice is p…

this is insanity

Related personal anecdote: I am experimenting with Tinder subscription at the moment, and it feels incredibly exploitative. When you make a profile, matches are frequent and you ca…

Larger and more well-known companies do leet-code style programming challenges. I recently interviewed for a job in a ride hailing app company and they directly recommended practic…

I have experienced this first hand, so this article resonates a lot with me. I worked with a manager who prioritized work which was easily measurable, so he could report the good n…

How would quantitative easing affect the next crash? It seems like a thing that distinguishes this time from all other ones. Governments have more control over the economy with QE:…